Achi news desk-
HALIFAX –
The former president of the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia has lodged a formal complaint against the province’s auditor general with the regulatory body for chartered professional accountants.
The complaint by Joseph Khoury relates to a February report by auditor general Kim Adair in which he called on the RCMP to investigate the party’s “apparent cover-up” of misuse of public funds.
Khoury, who was Liberal president when the theft was discovered in December 2020, says the party investigated the incident and recovered the stolen money.
He says Adair’s report is incomplete and defamatory of him and the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
Khoury is calling on the Chartered Professional Accountants of Nova Scotia — of which Adair is a member — to open an investigation into their alleged failure to meet the body’s standards of conduct and objectivity.
He says he chose the professional association because the auditor general’s office has no complaints mechanism.
The auditor general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Adair has said she “fully supports” everything in her report.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on April 8, 2024.
